Three Cheers: Poems by Cayanan, Lehman, Musakovska in "The Common," April 2023

The Common
Poetry editor John Hennessy
April Is Poetry Month: New Poems By Our Contributors

MARK ANTHONY CAYANAN, DAVID LEHMAN, and YULIYA MUSAKOVSKA (translated by the author and OLENA JENNINGS)

The Remedy
By David Lehman

Although I do not have
the remedy for the isolation
despite the illusion
that we’re in constant touch
beyond the hectoring
that passes for discourse,
I console myself with
the knowledge that life
as a wounded old-timer
coupled with a loving wife
is superior even to sleep,
which is what one poet
wrote that she will miss
the most when she is dead.

Click here for the other poems in the April poetry feature. https://www.thecommononline.org/april-2023-poetry-feature/

Comments

[David Schloss]

Pithy and charming, even tonic "sonnet."